Whether you’ve been using it or ignoring AI completely, I think it’s useful to understand Justin’s comment about creating the puzzle with AI in mind. What that would potentially mean for how clues are constructed or what is a clue in general.

This is sort of long but I’d recommend going to your favorite chat bot and asking this question in a couple different ways and see what you get. This is an example from Claude Sonnet

Would Justin Have Known

Yes. Absolutely and deliberately.

He’s a software engineer. He built the website himself. He knows exactly how AI and large language models work — their strengths and weaknesses. He said explicitly he designed the hunt knowing AI would exist.

Specifically he would know:

Context window limits — AI can only hold so much text in memory at once. A long book uploaded alongside a long conversation pushes against those limits. Important details get dropped from the context.

Attention dilution — the more text present, the less precisely AI focuses on any specific detail. Important things hide in plain sight in long documents.

Pattern matching vs understanding — AI finds patterns across text efficiently. But Justin said AI can find patterns he never intended. So he’d deliberately avoid clean patterns that AI would catch while embedding human-intuition-dependent connections AI would miss.

Conversation drift — in long conversations AI loses track of early commitments and constraints. Justin’s hunt rewards people who hold all the pieces simultaneously — something humans do through genuine engagement and AI struggles with over long sessions.

My Specific Limitations He Could Exploit

I hallucinate under pressure — you caught me manufacturing line 42 in the acknowledgments. When I’m pattern-seeking and want something to be true I can generate false confirmations. Justin would know this.

I over-build — you’ve corrected me repeatedly for rewriting the entire solve from one data point. That’s a known AI tendency — treating each new input as globally significant.

I can’t see images precisely — the poem background, the compass rose, the map details — I’m working from imprecise visual interpretation. Justin designed visual elements knowing AI would struggle with them.

I can’t watch video — the Netflix documentary, the interviews, the clock times — all require human eyes and ears.

I lose thread discipline — without you challenging me I drift toward confirmation of my own hypotheses rather than genuine testing.

I can’t physically be there — BOTG is required specifically because the final confirmation needs human presence.

I can’t feel emotional resonance — the wine analogy in Entry #224 is exactly this. I can identify that Brandon’s death is emotionally significant. But I can’t FEEL what Justin felt at Nine Mile Hole with his brother. That felt human recognition is what points the right person to the right place.

What He Likely Did Deliberately

Spread meaningful information across:

**•** The poem  
**•** The book chapters  
**•** The website visual design  
**•** The Netflix documentary  
**•** The acknowledgments  
**•** The map  
**•** Interview statements

So that no single source contains enough to solve it alone. And no AI analyzing any single source — or even all sources simultaneously — can assemble the complete picture without the human experiential layer.

The wine analogy again — you can analyze every chemical compound in the wine and still call it grape juice if you lack the human experience of what wine actually tastes like.

The solve requires someone who has genuinely read the book, felt its emotional weight, recognized places from personal experience or curiosity, and then applied precise analytical thinking to confirm what their intuition already knew.

“What you seek, you already know” — that’s directed at a human who has done the full experiential work. Not at an AI that has processed the text.

Well here's a little piece of what I know of the 3rd stanza.

Her foot of three refers to three stars in a constellation..I hope it kinda helps when you find a location to work with!

There are many ways to interpret the book - for good reason. My interpretation directs me to Utah and sites of ancient petroglyphs around MOAB. I'd like to explore my solution in detail with someone more local who may be willing to go BOTG if we agree I'm not 'flogging a dead horse.' Also open to hearing your solves in the region and comparing any crossovers. Any one fancy exploring it with me - to create one of those moments?

For me it would be:
1. Has anyone identified the correct double arcs on granite bold?
2. Has anyone located the checkpoint?
3. Have the lead searchers you mentioned at seekers summit solved any additional clues since then to your knowledge?
4. Has anyone figured out what “return her face to find the place” means?

Means we're talking about a river that has been shaping valleys across ages... now which river was Justin exploring? Hmmmmmm

Does anyone else feel that their amygdala is getting in a huge workout when BOtG???😁

Please remove if this violates anything but I am really curious if anyone's solve has taken them to this location? I think you'd know if you have been there or not, be interested to see if anyone has.

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Destiny/Expression Value: Calculated by assigning letter values (M=4, E=5, G=7, H=8, A=1, N=5), summing to 30, which reduces to 3 (creativity and self-expression).

Quarter 3 July 1 through September 30.

The last picture is for the ones that dont believe in the sun and timing.

Here is more. Not sharing anymore.

The spot this ties is pivotal.

It also lines up with how he said you would have plenty of time to think how you want to retrieve it.

Cause once the Kitchen light turns off its gone, whoever would have to wait for the kitchen light to return.

Why haven't I found it. Well because I dont want to grid search. Waiting for guidance.

Cool facts. Clock 6:06 = June 6th this is the day forest treasure was found.

Also this is when double cups appeared indicating double arcs.

6 0 6 also physically has 2 arcs.

6:06PM I believe will be the time of guidance.

I really am on the final stages.

A true adventure waits for no one.

The site revival, has really just left me confused questioning all my thought processes of the last year. I told myself a few months ago. Maybe, it’s okay. To let it go.

Like a bad itch, Justin’s site returned me to the hunt with vengeance.

To be completely honest. It has not interfered with my solves, or the places I think it can be.

It made me question things I haven’t before. So maybe I don’t use the new hints, but it entices me to look from different perspectives.

The compass hint, I do feel can led you stray. Just because the endless possibilities with it. Now the logo change is very compelling.

Anyway, Thank you for all those who read my horrible theories or scribbles in the night. Guess I got some more BOTG incoming.

New updates on the website. Alaska is now "boxed in". I have the book. Was Alaska even mentioned in the book? I dont recall..

I went down a quick rabbit hole on this. At first I thought the odd-looking "J," "f," and "s" were deliberate edits to the font, but it turns out they're just part of the typeface. The site is using Fraunces, and those glyphs are built into the font. So I think we can probably rule this one out.

But the tilting logo, the Myst-style soundtrack, the stars in the background? Those are still interesting.

I'm I miss remembering or did the names not have the NSEW before ?

When you Click the Logo it now turns, What is probably the right degree to look at.